Thread: Bsa international accuracy

Well, you havent really tested it till youve tried Eley Match. Thats what it was designed to shoot.

Nb I have tried a couple of different boxes of Eley Subsonic ( hollowpoint) and it gave by far the biggest groups of anything. Its not the same stuff as Eley target ammo.

I would suggest the group with the CCI suppressor is perfectly suitable for hunting and eley match may be better but it's probably even more expensive.
I do have 10 rounds of eley tenex from 1989 back when I did a season of smallbore.
As for the eley subsonic, I had a handful of those from a couple of years back and that is indicated on the target.
Both next to useless in that rifle.

Yes that Suppressor group is great isnt it. Gimp would say to shoot a few sets of 10. Looking at that, the rifle / mount / scope has extremely good potential and I wouldnt bother with Match or your Tenex. Ive still got a couple of rows in storage for such occasions too.

I'd say, if you want to make accurate statements about the precision of the rifle/ammo system, you need more data.

If you want to go hunting with it, define what level of precision you need for that, determine whether it meets that, go hard

All of the holes in that bit of paper would be dead rabbits at the same range. I would use the ammo with the best killing ability, velocity and expansion; rather than the subsonics. in the .22 I use Powerpoints or Minimags. Accuracy is greatly overrated for hunting.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

Accuracy and precision is greatly overrated for hunting.

Agreed. It's pretty hard to miss an animal due to poor precision. It really makes very little difference. Most hunting rifle precision is worse than most people think, but it doesn't matter for hunting. Shooter error is by far the larger effect size in the field

There is no consistent standard definition used for precision and most of those used have no direct relationship to hit probability

Indeed.

Well it's not used for target shooting anymore. If it had shot the group in the center of the target I would've been reasonably content for a less than 100m bunny gun (especially subs), but still a little disappointed an old target rifle couldn't do better.
If any of my 22s would do a 5 shot group as per the 45gr stuff I'd say done and done.
Next step is identifying some HV ammo that is at least as good as the center group and hopefully close to the really good group.
Funnily enough I want to try some CCI minimal and segmented although I do have maybe 2 packets of old aussie powerpoint I could try for shitz and gigs.
I did have some to try at the time but had an unwanted distraction amongst other things